• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    Tech Bros have been trying to repeat the Net Boom almost immediately after that bubble burst - I think it didn’t more than a couple of years after that Crash for the “Web 2.0” to start being paraded around like some kind of new gold rush that everybody should jump into and, as clearly visible in the list of hype techs you wrote, they just kept doubling down on the hype and the fraud ever since.

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      11 days ago

      Tech Bros have been trying to repeat the Net Boom almost immediately after that bubble burst

      the original dot com bubble never really got its reckoning because almost immediately after that there was 9/11 which shifted focus and then there was the whole economy collapse situation and by then it was ancient history nobody cared about.

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          11 days ago

          it happened like five or six times this century alone but because of creative bookkeeping and bailouts it seems like its impact was mitigated time and time again but in reality it was just chipping away an already shaky foundation built on perception and not reality.

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      11 days ago

      They were doing it before the net boom too. Roaring 20s, railway mania, Mississippi bubble, south sea bubble, and on and on.

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        11 days ago

        I’m think just Tech here, or maybe more specifically digital technology - the period till 2000 was mainly driven by techies, after than it was mainly driven by grifters.

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              10 days ago

              Sea people are more a backlash to states IMO

              Capitalism creates the boom/bust pattern in the same way national borders create immigration crisis.

              When you map reality onto a belief system it creates distortions.